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James Buchanan on economic advisors as establishment intellectuals
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in applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, James Buchanan, Public Choice
#COVID19
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Outrageous: French Company Destroying Battlefield Graves With Giant Wind Turbines
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On the Western Front: a soldier’s trench, too often became his grave.
The efforts by wind power outfits to desecrate the battlefield graves of thousands who died in France are nothing short of outrageous.
Quite rightly, historians and the relatives and descendants of those who died fighting to protect French lives and liberty are furious as a French wind power outfit literally rips up a battlefield and the final resting place for thousands of men who made the supreme sacrifice. This latest outrage follows several other proposals to do precisely the same across the battlefields of northern France.
When the guns fell silent all across the Western Front on 11 November 1918, thoughts naturally turned to the 10 million combatants who had perished in what was meant to be the war to end all wars.
Of those who were killed in action, countless thousands remain buried where they fought and fell…
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King Henry IV of England. Part II.
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Henry IV ‘s first major problem as monarch was what to do with the deposed Richard II. After an early assassination plot (the Epiphany Rising) was foiled in January 1400, Richard died in prison, probably of starvation. He was 33 years old. Though Henry is often suspected of having his predecessor murdered, there is no substantial evidence to prove that claim.
As king, Henry IV consulted with Parliament frequently, but was sometimes at odds with the members, especially over ecclesiastical matters. On Arundel’s advice, Henry IV obtained from Parliament the enactment of De heretico comburendo in 1401, which prescribed the burning of heretics, at the stake as an act done mainly to suppress the Lollard movement.
De heretico comburendo was one of the strictest religious censorship statutes ever enacted in England. In March 2, 1401 William Sawtrey became the first Lollard to be burned. This law stayed on the books…
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March 20, 1413: Death of King Henry IV of England. Part I.
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From the Emperor’s Desk. This will be a four part series on the life of King Henry IV of England. Part I will look at his lineage and rise to the throne, Part II will examine his reign and Part III will examine his claim to the throne.
Henry IV (April 15, 1367 – March 20, 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413. He reasserted the claim of his grandfather King Edward III, a maternal grandson of Philippe IV of France, to the Kingdom of France.
Henry was the son of John of Gaunt (the fourth son of Edward III) and Blanche of Lancaster. John enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of his cousin King Richard II, whom Henry eventually deposed. Henry founded the Lancaster branch of the House of Anjou, also known as…
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What is @Greenpeace @Oxfam doing to fix this?
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in development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: energy poverty, extreme poverty
No mucking about
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What Are The World’s Oldest Borders?
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Another reversing gender gap
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: reversing gender gap
Ellen McGrattan in real business cycle models
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycle theory
Why Didn’t Anyone Copy the Roman Army?
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in defence economics Tags: Roman empire
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